Safety teller&#39;s window



C. POVEY.

SAFETY TELLERS WINDOW.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.2!, 1919.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

.mT LI WITNESSES A TTORIVEYS CHARLES POVEY, 013 NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY TELLERS WINDOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

App1ication filed March 21, 1919. Serial No. 283,980.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Power, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Astoria, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Safety Tellers Window, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to cashiers booths or the like and has particular reference to the construction of windows or counters for bank tellers, cashiers or similar oflicials who are chargeable with the handling and safe keeping of large amounts of cash or other valuables.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a construction made preferably of bullet proof metal, but provided with suitable openings or devices for the convenience of the public or patrons of the institution in the depositing or withdrawing of cash or the like in the regular legitimate way, or for the transfer of pass-books or the like without danger of subjecting the tellers to direct ex posure to vicious men who might seek to rob the institution or maliciously attack the officials.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practi cal embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a tellers window structure made in accordance with this invention.

Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are horizontal sections of the same on the corresponding lines indicated on Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a modified form of the grille bars.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my improvement'as comprising any suitable vertical side or end panels 10 and 11 which as a whole are essentially imperforate, but being provided at various points with suitable openings for the transfer of pass-books, cash, or other devices. Obviously any suitable number or design or arrangement of booths 14 may be provided back of the walls 10 and 11, but as to this I am not particularly concerned at this time.

Each window opening 15 formed through the wall 10 is guarded with any suitable, but preferably rigidly arranged, bars, slats, grille or other device 16 shown as comprising a plurality of rods or bars preferably arranged in a plurality of rows or series of preferably different diameters as indicated in Figs. 2 and 5, the elements of one series partially or entirely breaking joints with those of the other series so as to prevent any one on the outside of the window from firing through the window at the cashier or teller or thrusting a weapon of any kind therethrough in an attempt to attack any individual within or back of the window. Preferably, however, sufiicient clearance is observed between adjacent elements of the grille 16 to see and converse through.

Projecting outward beneath or from the grille is a ledge or shelf 17 constituting a movable delivery or transfer device either in the form of a single circular element mounted to swing around a vertical axis 18 beneath the grille. This movable transfer element is provided with pockets or depressions 20 large enough to receive a pass-book with money or checks therein, or other papers that are likely to be transferred from one side of the wall to the other in the transaction of business of the character indicated.

I provide also beneath each window a large transfer drawer 21, pivoted to swing through an arc of a circle around a vertical pivot 22. These transfer drawers provide means for delivering in either direction through the wall a large bundle or package without subjecting a party on either side of the wall to a malicious attack from another upon the opposite side.- 7

In Fig. 5 I show the grille bars as polygonal in cross section and with the inner series or bars smaller in diameter than the outer bars, the difference in diameter being substantially in accordance with the radii of curvature of the several series of bars as in Fig. 2.

I claim:

1. The herein described safety tellers win dow construction comprising a grille having a plurality of series of rigidly fixed immovable parallel bars, the bars of one series breaking joints with those of the other and so arranged as to permit conversation and restricted vision, but to prevent the firing of bullets therethrongh as Well as the passage of pass-books, money, or the like, and

movable means adjacent to the grille where V by comnioclitles may be transferred through the structure in either direction and yet guard the teller from attack from the opposite side.

2. In a safety WlIlClOW construction, a grille comprising a plurality of series of parallel rigid iminovably fixed metal bars arranged in cylindrical arcs, the inner series of bars breaking joints With the outer series and of a size smaller than the outer series in proportion to the differences in radii of curvature of the series.

' CHARLES POVEY. 

